Wear a Mask of Yourself - Making and Doing.

I didn't plan the face to look like this when I started my prototype, I planned to have two separate bands for the eyes and lips but when they were laid out it was too funny to resist trying out. When flat this mockup looks great! It's funny but also terrifying and maybe a little cute, definitely sassy as anything and captures my 'chronic b****face'. It reminded me a lot of Alex Pardee's work. However when it's worn on a 3D face, such as mine, the eyes wrapped around far too much and a lot of the charm it has from the front was lost. 

Trying to get the eyes to face the front was a challenge. At first I tried moving the lips down, using string on the back of them and the base to attach them, as it would allow me to move the eyes more central rather than too far on the sides, however this did not fully solve the problem. Since I wasn't sure how I would combat it further, I asked around to get ideas off others. Molly suggested a concertina that would make the eyes spring out forwards instead of being firmly stuck to the base. This did help with the wrapping problem but, as you can see in the second picture the eyes sprung off to the sides. 

Since the winged eyeliner on the eyes was so big I was able to stick the inner corner to the base which I was delighted to find made the eyes face forward and stick out off the edge of the base as I had initially designed it. 

The small eyes looked really freaky! Definitely like something out of 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' and although the way they looked was great I didn't think they exaggerated my eyeliner as much as I had imagined in the design process. The bigger eyes still irritated me somehow, they had the exaggeration but not the freaky factor! There didn't seem to be a happy medium between spooky and the emphasis I wanted. In the end I created an eye that was somewhere between the two in size, but tried to keep it kind of creepy looking by elongating the pupils. The extra pink on the lips was added to give a cartoon implication of a shine on them as if wearing gloss, I just thought it would look cute and add a little bit of charm to the mask.